Sunday, February 01, 2015

The "Lost" CHEERS scene

A yearly tradition...

For several years I've been talking about the "Lost" CHEERS scene. David and I wrote it for the 1983 Super Bowl Pre-game show to promote our fledgling series. They ran it just before game time and it was seen by 80,000,000 people. Nothing we've ever written before or since has been seen by that many eyeballs at one time. But the scene was never repeated. It never appeared on any DVD's. It just disappeared.

Until a couple of years ago.

Sportswriter supreme, Joe Resnick has taped every Super Bowl including that one. And since the scene aired so close to the game, it was on the tape. Thanks to friend of the blog, Howard Hoffman, he was able to digitize it and post it on YouTube. Here's the text of the scene.

I'm not into the NFL but I hope the ad spots for this summer's movies turn out to be good, especially Terminator Genisys. Stop laughing, it's got to be at least better than Terminator Salvation, which just stank up the place.

There is possibly another "lost" Cheers episode. This is one that I'm guessing the Cheers cast had done for the United States Postal Service. I believe this one had Kirstie in it not Shelley Long. In it Cliff explained the mail system to everyone. I remember members of our department had to attend a meeting on how to properly send department mail and they ran the Cheers scene. I don't think it was something just taken from a Cheers episode but a scene made specially for the U.S. Postal Service.

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